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My daughter was married early December 2012 which meant that she would move 700Km away to be with her husband stationed at the Navy base in Sydney, Australia.
Months earlier she had asked me if I could do her a bike so that when she was in Sydney, she could ride to the shops, University, etc and I said OK, it'll be your xmas present (I will post her bike in another post).
10 days before xmas my darling daughter says to me...... "Dad, can you also build a bike for Ben for xmas so we can go riding together? He could just take his dads fancy mountain bike with him to Sydney, but you know how much he likes your kustomized stuff"
What's a guy to do???? I said OK again.
I had fixed up my daughters childhood trike for the flowergirl in her wedding, and bought this bike
just to get the basket to carry the flowers.
I decided to turn this into Bens custom flip bike.
First mock-up, ended up not using those wheels or parts donor frame.
Frame with cut down dropouts and and freshly donated BB, seat tube and dropouts.
Opened up the BB so I could weld a seat post in there for strength and alignment.
My ghetto way of matching the cuts on the new dropouts...
The parts donor MTB also supplied better wheels... not good, just better.
didn't have time to pull them apart to clean them up, so I wraped them in cloth and rotated them through a bucket of Oxalic acid, cloth stayed wet and the acid did its job.
The frame with the BB, seat tube and dropouts welded on.
Then I did a lot of work without taking any photos
Months earlier she had asked me if I could do her a bike so that when she was in Sydney, she could ride to the shops, University, etc and I said OK, it'll be your xmas present (I will post her bike in another post).
10 days before xmas my darling daughter says to me...... "Dad, can you also build a bike for Ben for xmas so we can go riding together? He could just take his dads fancy mountain bike with him to Sydney, but you know how much he likes your kustomized stuff"
What's a guy to do???? I said OK again.
I had fixed up my daughters childhood trike for the flowergirl in her wedding, and bought this bike
just to get the basket to carry the flowers.
I decided to turn this into Bens custom flip bike.
First mock-up, ended up not using those wheels or parts donor frame.
Frame with cut down dropouts and and freshly donated BB, seat tube and dropouts.
Opened up the BB so I could weld a seat post in there for strength and alignment.
My ghetto way of matching the cuts on the new dropouts...
The parts donor MTB also supplied better wheels... not good, just better.
didn't have time to pull them apart to clean them up, so I wraped them in cloth and rotated them through a bucket of Oxalic acid, cloth stayed wet and the acid did its job.
The frame with the BB, seat tube and dropouts welded on.
Then I did a lot of work without taking any photos
